Steve Clayton asks in his blog, Geek In Disguise, "Do you sleep with your phone?"
As a matter of fact, I do.
(OK. Before you start thinking funny things about "sleeping with", I literally mean sleeping. Not the figuratively "sleeping with". Perv. Haha. Hey - new job! Gotta make an impression.)
Beside my bed is a low table that has 2 mobile phones - a Samsung, fitted with a SIM card that allows me to communicate with my partner through SMS and phone calls cheaply, and a Nokia E90, which I use for work (it gets synced with my schedules and tasks from Outlook(R), as well as files when I don't feel like bringing home the laptop).
Both phones try - and that's the operative word - try to wake me up at 6am so I can go to the gym at 7am or at least swim. That's in theory. It doesn't work.
But they do sleep beside me.
In addition to these two phones, one more gadget sleeps with me, an iPod. I am still waiting for Zune to reach Singapore's shores - or at least for someone amongst my team to go to Redmond so they can buy me one (hopefully, for free!).
I am still learning Espanol. And I am still really bad at it. I am still trying to get through the tenses - as well as beefing up my, well, slang vocabulary. I can carry on a "formal conversation" - specifically about wine, countries, nationalities, and order perhaps a nice paella in the restaurante. But not present.
The goal: Be able to present a plan in Spanish at the end of the year 2008.
Anyway, I digress: I use the iPod for my Spanish lessons. I learned in college that the brain doesn't stop learning even when we sleep. It still is open to stimulus - and I guess, it worked: I aced my Chem, Physics, Psych, and History courses by listening to my recorded voice whilst I slept. I am guessing that it should work again now.
The MacBookPro that I bought 6 months ago - and for clarity's sake, 4 months before my current company (guess which one?) agreed to take me on board - is also by my bedside. I use Word for Mac 2004 - and I use it mainly as a journal. Excel? Checking stocks and balancing cheques. So far, I have not used PowerPoint - it reminds me so much of work I can't seem to bear looking at a PowerPoint slide at 11pm!
So - nope, I just don't sleep with my phone - I sleep with 2 phones, an iPod (which I hope will be a Zune soon), and the MacBookPro and Word for Mac 2004.
It's an orgy of technology before I sleep.
And just for the record: I cannot live without my phones. Take away everything else - but not the two phones.
